LibGuides: Informatics: Key Resources

Key Resources for Informatics

The following databases contain a variety of material, including journal articles, for your specific subject area. The brief descriptions beneath the titles will explain what each hold. To access, click on the title.

ACM Digital Library
A full-text collection of all Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) publications, including journals, magazines, books, newsletters, and proceedings since 1954.
arXiv
Open access to over 880,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
IEEE Xplore
Access to the IEEE Electronic Library, which contains approximately one-third of the world's current literature in electrical engineering, communications, and computer science.
Kanopy (now via Library Search)
You can now look for Kanopy films using Library Search. The benefit of this is that it will also search across our other film collections, to make sure that you don't miss out. Simply enter your search terms and select 'Video' from the drop down list at the end of the Library Search bar.
Science
The world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news and commentary.
ScienceDirect
Full text and abstracts from over 2,500 journals in all fields of science and social sciences such as economics, management and business.
Scopus
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database, which provides access to academic journals, books, conference proceedings, and patents from 1788–present.
Advanced Features: citation analysis, author profiles, journal metrics; data export and analysis, search alerts.
SpringerLink
Access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works, primarily in Science, Technology and Medicine.
Synthesis
An information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science. The University has access to collections I to V.
Web of Science
A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of academic journal articles, books and conference proceedings covering all subjects, dating back to 1900. Web of Science consists of multiple different databases including the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Features: citation analysis, researcher profiles, journal metrics, search alerts.